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Kausaalienkeli (2014)

by Hannu Rajaniemi(Favorite Author)

4.24 of 5 Votes: 1

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English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Gummerus

series

The Jean le Flambeur Series

review 1: 5 days to read less than 300 pages?! This snail's pace is atypical for me. It felt as though I fell through the white rabbit's wormhole! Reality as we know it is NOTHING like it is in The Causal Angel. It left me frequently struggling for my bearings. While that was cool previously, it became more of a disconnect this time around. I think I always sorted my way through, but will I ever be 100% sure?Because my footing was often unsure, it wasn't always evident that the author's path from beginning to end was clearly mapped out. I'm pretty sure it was, but it took time to finally see some of the details fall into place. I began wondering if these details could have randomly been thrown together after the fact, when most of the book had already been written. Trying to make it... more appear like it had been the greater, master plan all along. I don't know, honestly. I mentioned this in my status updates. For a period of about 40-50 pages in the middle, it's like the editor went on a drunken holiday with the occasional miss thereafter. Those pages drove me batty as they jarred me out of a story that I was already struggling with. Now, please take all I have said with a grain of salt. My mind has been majorly preoccupied with my personal life, of late. Maybe those more pressing concerns kept me distracted enough that I didn't engage as well as I could have with this book. Still, this is a great read and wrap up to the trilogy. Not a blow out ending, but pretty good. I'd be interested in possibly reading more by Rajaniemi, but I now know I must be in the right frame of mind to do so. His books are not relaxing, leisure reading. You are getting a delicious work out for the brain between new concepts both real with new twists and fictional plus following the ins and outs of the author's machinations. Definitely an exhilarating ride!
review 2: I loved the first two Jean de Flambeur books, The Quantum Thief and The Fractal Prince, but the concluding volume wasn't quite up to their standards. The zokus were a mess of current-day geek culture that took me out of the story - I don't think Minecraft, steampunk trollfaces will survive the Singularity. The actual plotting was too large scale, and the charm of the earlier books was buried in constant world-ending revelations and quantum-mechanical technobabble.So why the high rating? Because Hannu Rajaniemi is still one of the most inventive writers around, and every chapter has a striking image or an inventive metaphor-made-real. He is the trickster-thief with constant tricks up his sleeve, and I can't wait to see what he does next. less

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